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It should do it easily, well slowly.
The most I ever did in one day on my 50cc was 100miles, and that got really nackering after a while (mostly due to horrible weather and getting lost), but the scooter held up well.
I'd suggest stopping like every 50 miles to give the engine a break just to be on the safe side.
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People do stupid ass rides on monkeybikes over here, at least your 'Ped has the edge in comfort there. 
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When I was a Ped-Boi in the early 70s I did a couple of 150mile rides on my KTM Comet.
It took a very long time and we once got overtaken by 50 odd HA in Sumerset, they gave us the thumbs up 
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Posted: 02:43 - 22 Sep 2007  Post subject: Re: Long rides on a moped |
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| TheBassJunky wrote: | Is it actually feasible? 150-200 miles?
I know it'll take a while, but has anyone ever done it? And will a little two-stroke hold up for that kind of distance? |
Back in 1978, I was hired to manage a moped shop called "Fun City Mopeds" in Hawthorne, California, USA. (Just south of Los Angeles)
Mopeds were a new "fad" here, but the owner was having trouble selling them. People thought they would work to go check the mailbox or run for a donut, but NO ONE here thought they could be taken seriously. I told the owner that i would do something crazy to increase sales.
My own moped, a 1978 PUCH Newport was white with a windshield, small saddlebags, turn signals and a radio. I changed the front gear, Increasing it by one tooth. That gave me a higher top speed exceeding 35 m.p.h, but it also made the bike struggle a bit more to climb grades. My customers called it the "cop bike" because if cops rode mopeds, they would have looked like my bike!
I began by forming "The Moped Mob", a biker club comprised entirely of mopeds. 49cc or less was the only restriction. I achieved 23 members, mostly college girls, but at age 20,that was just fine with me!
We did a few publicly visible group rides around the various cities, L.A., Hawthorne, Inglewood and so forth, showing people that mopeds ARE among them. Then I called the newspaper!
Up to that point, a "long ride" was 12 to 15 miles for moped owners. I organized an overnight ride to the San Diego bay and back, sleeping at the water's edge at the bay and returning the following afternoon. The round trip was about 260 miles. This was big news!
I had six bikes, including my own, willing to try the expedition. I planned the route, made arrangements for camping and a standby truck to recover disabled bikes if necessary.
We met a the shop ... pictures pictures pictures ... the mopeds bore a sleeping bag and a tent each, along with a small backpack for clothes and such. The reporter interviewed the riders as if they were about to embark on an interstellar space flight! LOL!
A local gas station "sponsored" us by filling our tanks for the journey south. He really got a lot of publicity out of six gallons of gas! He also arranged for another station in San Diego to fill us up for the return trip.
The ride was wonderful! We stayed on city streets and then the coast highway. The ride to San Diego bay took about nine hours. We all made it on the tanks of fuel provided by the station.
On the way down, we hit Camp Pendleton. i had not counted on their restriction for motorcycles! We had to have reflective vests, eye protection, shoes with hard soles and a defined heel ... A quick stop in San Clemente resolved those issues for about $200.00. The marines knew how to deal with motorcycles, but MOPEDS were something new. They were registered as cars,and did not require a motorcycle endorsement to ride them. The guard let us through the gate by telling us we would have to pedal them like bicycles to the south gate ... 16 MILES away! We agreed,and peddled away fromthe guard shack, firing up the engines as soon as we were out of sight.
We exited the camp without stopping, and the gate guards did not stop us. They were probably trying to figure out what the heck was going on! (1978 = PRE-9/11, so the base security was not as severe.)
After our overnight at the bay, we returned and were stopped at the gate. Again, we were told to PEDAL the bikes to the north gate 16 miles away. We peddled away from the gate and fired 'em up again. Only THIS time, we were met at the north gate by several vehicles with flashing lights, and a barricade! We peddled up to the gate, but the marine reached down to feel our hot engines, and looked at his watch. "You used your engines!" he growled. After long explanation about how the pedals are REALLY for starting the engine and are not practical for forward movement due to the extremely low gear ratio, they let us gowith a warning: "Don't EVER try this again!"
We returned to the shop,but had to stop for more fuel on the way. There was a headwind heading north that significantly reduced our fuel economy. we barely achieved 100 m.p.g.!!
More photos at the finish,and large poster boards with our photographs of the "adventure" were all it took to sell 48 mopeds in the following few weeks! My boss was smiling! i felt like i had accomplished something great!
Later on, the moped craze died down, and today mopeds are rarely seen around here. Still, I have to say that the trip was FUN, and we saw more at the slower speeds than we would have seen at 70 m.p.h. on the freeway!
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